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Writers write, actors read. Top 10 Story Night (@TheGuardian.com) Account run by LL Director Katy Darby.

Christmas Event: BLESSED & CURSED, Tue 9 Dec @7.30pm (doors at 6.30) at The Phoenix W1 - Tickets ONLY £5 at: http://liarsleague.com
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rhystimson.bsky.social
Come to the Phoenix near Cavendish Square this Tuesday evening for a night of five festive short stories read by a cast of fantastic professional actors, including my subeditorial take on the Dickens classic! Inc free mince pies!
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🎄Meet the #BLESSEDandCURSED Talent 5: actor Clareine Cronin reads author @rhystimson.bsky.social's cautionary tale of a #Scrooge-like subeditor "The Ghost of Christmas Future Perfect" TOMORROW, Tue 9 Dec at The Phoenix W1 🎄
🎟️ Tickets £5! Email liars@liarsleague.com 🎟️
🎄All info: www.liarsleague.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
liarsleague.bsky.social
@simonelia.bsky.social is a local (Brockley, SE London) cartoonist & writes the adorable & thought-provoking #FluffyPulcino

Here are the Beans doing Christmas Preparation... I feel seen! open.substack.com/pub/simoneli...
Christmas Preparation
why is the list so long and does any of it really matter?
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December 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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🎄Meet the #BLESSEDandCURSED Talent 5: actor Clareine Cronin reads author @rhystimson.bsky.social's cautionary tale of a #Scrooge-like subeditor "The Ghost of Christmas Future Perfect" TOMORROW, Tue 9 Dec at The Phoenix W1 🎄
🎟️ Tickets £5! Email liars@liarsleague.com 🎟️
🎄All info: www.liarsleague.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
liarsleague.bsky.social
Meet the #BLESSEDandCURSED #ChristmasStory Talent 4: Actor @alexwoodhall.bsky.social makes a triumphant return to the #LiarsLeague reading Quintin Forrest's tale of (alternate) #PrinceHarry's traumatic festivities THIS Tue 9 Dec at The Phoenix. 🎟️Tickets £5 🎟️ Email liars@liarsleague.com to reserve! 🎟️
December 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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🎄Meet the #BlessedAndCursed Talent 3! Introducing author Alex Edwards & actor David Mildon, who reads a tale of an opium-mad Victorian sailor & a cursed jewel this Tue 9 Dec at The Phoenix for our Xmas special! Host: @liamjhogan.bsky.social

🎟️Tickets only £5! Email liars@liarsleague.com to reserve🎟️
December 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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🎄Meet the Talent!🎄Hi to author
@hannahdownes.bsky.social
& HAPPY BIRTHDAY to actress Aïsha Kent, reading Hannah's story PRECIOUS CARGO next Tue 9 Dec for Xmas show👼#BlessedAndCursed at The Phoenix.

🎟️TICKETS ONLY £5! Email liars@liarsleague.com to snap up your spot
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December 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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A cold day in December, and therefore time for me to post a career highlight: David Mildon's magnificent performance of my Christmas story 'Mr Cromerty Of Boston', for the @liarsleague.bsky.social. Enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Lu...
Mr Cromerty of Boston by Richard Smyth, read by David Mildon
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December 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Meet the #BlessedAndCursed talent #1: LL debutante @amy-c-author.bsky.social & veteran actor Silas Hawkins reading her black-magic tale A CREATURE STIRS (hint in pic 1) next Tue 9 Dec at @ThePhoenix_W1

🎟️Tickets £5, link below or email liars@liarsleague.com to book.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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👻It's a fine tradition to read ghost stories in winter, but why not rest your eyes instead & listen to #HauntedAndHunted, our latest podcast feat. @carriecohen01.bsky.social @timlarkfield.bsky.social @timaldrich.bsky.social @davemcgrath.bsky.social You're welcome🎅

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December 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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🔔CAST ANNOUNCED for #BlessedAndCursed Tue 9 Dec!

• David Mildon: Victorian opium-fiend
• Aisha Kent: @hannahdownes.bsky.social's Precious Cargo
• Clareine Cronin: @rhystimson.bsky.social's subeditor
• Silas Hawkins: @amy-c-author.bsky.social's sorcerer
& @alexcuddles.bsky.social: Prince Harry! 🎄
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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#BlessedAndCursed SHORTLIST & LONGLIST revealed! Is your story in there? 📚
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Shortlisted authors will receive brief feedback on their submitted story within 4 weeks, PLUS
🎟️ a free ticket to the show on Tue 9 Dec at @thephoenix_w1
🥂 a drink on us - cos it’s Christmas!
November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
liarsleague.bsky.social
WINNING STORIES ANNOUNCED! Check out our next event, the festively #BlessedAndCursed #ChristmasStory special on Tuesday 9th December at our usual venue of The Phoenix, W1
🎟️TICKETS £5
🥟FREE MINCE PIES
Congrats @hannahdownes.bsky.social @rhystimson.bsky.social & more!

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November 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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liamjhogan.bsky.social
Now that Halloween is out of the-- ARGH! Christmas Deadline for @liarsleague.bsky.social is TOMORROW! Blessed & Cursed, < 2000 words, for reading out in a pub (by actors!) #LiveLit #ShortStory

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Get 'em, as they say, in!
NEXT DEADLINE: Sun 2 Nov for Blessed & Cursed Xmas stories – Liars' League
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for our next event BLESSED & CURSED on Tuesday 9th December Seasonal blessings or Christmas curses (or both!) – take your pick & submit your story to our festive winter special. W...
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November 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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#BlessedAndCursed #Christmasstories #submissionDeadline TONIGHT!

Send your 800-2000 word story to liars@liarsleague.com by 11.59pm UK time on Sun 2 Nov.

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#CallForSubmissions #FeeFreeSubmissions #XmasStories #WinterStories #FlashFiction #ShortStories
November 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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HAPPY #HALLOWEEN! Your treat is 5 #HauntedAndHunted short stories: possessed doorbells, Russian skinwalkers, Polar terror, Irish mammies & the hi-tech home from Hell liarsleague.com/category/hau...

Writer? SUBMIT to our Xmas theme #BlessedAndCursed, by THIS SUN 2 NOV: info at www.liarsleague.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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🎃 An icy touch of #ArcticHorror for #Halloween: shiver your timbers with MAGNITUDE by Katty Pearce read by Tim Larkfield for our #HauntedAndHunted spooky special 🎃

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Writer? Next deadline THIS SUN 2 Nov, theme #BlessedAndCursed #XmasStories

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MAGNITUDE - a short story by Katty Pearce, read by Tim Larkfield
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October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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🎃 #Halloween is coming & devices are rebelling 🎃Home tech = homewreck in INTEGRATED by Kate Griffiths-Lambeth read by Gloria Sanders for our #HauntedAndHunted special
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Next deadline THIS SUN 2 Nov, theme #BlessedAndCursed / #ChristmasStories liarsleague.com/2008/04/03/f...
INTEGRATED - a short story by Kate Griffiths-Lambeth, read by Gloria Sanders
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October 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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📰Got a lil piece about LL in the @citystgeorges.bsky.social Creative Digest this week, extolling the magic of listening to a story live ... ALSO:
🎃More #HauntedAndHUnted stories online soon!
👼#BlessedAndCursed🎄#ChristmasStories deadline next Sun 2 Nov!
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Creative Digest #16:
The latest edition of our departmental Substack
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October 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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🎃Today's #storyvideo from our #HauntedAndHunted pre-#Halloween special is THE BEAR-SKIN by David Klotzkin, read by Lin Sagovksy.

🐻A boorish Russian count takes a bride and hunts a bear. Can either escape him? A #skinwalker fable to chill your vodka ...
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THE BEAR-SKIN - a short story by David Klotzkin, read by Lin Sagovsky
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October 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Friday night is date night! So here’s our 2nd video from #HauntedAndHunted, a quietly horrifying story to put you off ever meeting your new partner’s parents …

SO I TAKE THE BUS UP TO DROGHEDA - a #shortstory by #DavidMcGrath
#Halloween #GhostStoryKinda

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SO I TAKE THE BUS UP TO DROGHEDA - a short story by David McGrath, read by the author
YouTube video by Liars' League
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October 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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👻SHUDDER! Video 1 from our #HalloweenStories event #HAUNTEDandHUNTED is THE KEY by Lily Mac, read by Carrie Cohen at @ThePhoenix_W1 on Tue 14 Oct in a triumphantly terrifying opening to the show! 👻

🎃You'll never buy a Ring doorbell after this ... 🎃
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#shortstories #scarystories
THE KEY - a short story by Lily Mac, read by Carrie Cohen
YouTube video by Liars' League
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October 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Meet the #HAUNTEDandHUNTED Halloween Talent 4: David Klotzkin & Lin Sagovsky, who reads THE BEAR-SKIN, David's Russia-set story of a cowardly Russian Count, his downtrodden wife, and the bear(skin) that comes between them TONIGHT, Tue 14 Oc at @thephoenix_w1

£5 TIX: liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/n...
October 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Meet the #HAUNTEDANDhunted #Halloween Talent 3!
Kate Griffiths-Lambeth's INTEGRATED is read by Gloria Sanders TOMORROW, Tue 14 Oct at The Phoenix, W1

Leo & Clara's futuristic home is the perfect servant - till it starts to take control ...

Info & £5 tickets here: liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/n...
October 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Meet the #HAUNTEDandHUNTED #Halloween #Shortstories Talent 2: Katty Pearce's Victorian #ArcticHorror MAGNITUDE is read by @timlarkfield.bsky.social this Tue 14 Oct at The Phoenix, W1.

"The ice is full of horrors ... God help you if you find ..."

More info & £5 tix: liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/n...
October 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Meet the #HAUNTEDandHUNTED #Halloween Talent 1! LL debutante author Lily Mac's techno-terror tale THE KEY is read by @carriecohen01.bsky.social Tue 14 Oct at The Phoenix W1

*When your smart doorbell senses motion, but nobody's there - DON'T go out to look*

£5 TIX: liarsleague.com/2025/10/03/n...
October 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM